Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state.

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

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